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Originally Posted by MickMcGeough
Can you tell me why 4K is a crock? I need to upgrade my main set soon and I've been waffling on 4K or not...
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You basically need to either be sitting a few feet away from the screen or have a huge display and still be sitting fairly close to take advantage of the increase in resolution. With a 50 inch TV you have to be within 5-6 feet to even begin to distinguish between 1080p and higher resolutions and if you're sitting 10 feet away from the screen, you'd likely need an 80-90 inch display to detect a difference in resolution.
That doesn't mean they won't be popular. They look phenomenal up close so they'll look great in stores, but the real world benefit won't be there for the vast majority of consumers.
And of course there's the real possibility that we'll see more 4K content but that it'll have to be compressed to fit current bandwidth realities, in which case the end result might even be worse than a less compressed 720p or 1080p stream.